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Immigration is not rising inexorably, but instead mirrors the U.S. business cycle, rising and falling with U.S. demand for workers, a new report from the Pew Hispanic Center argues. Underlying the debate is a more fundamental question: Does immigration satisfy the needs of a healthy economy or undermine it?

Since the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, Serbs feel they have no identity. There is no national anthem, and the passports still say Republic of Yugoslavia. After years of isolation, sanctions and international criticism, Serbs feel they are on the fringes of the world.

David Greene talks to Alberto Fernandez about U.S. efforts to defeat ISIS. Fernandez used to run the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications at the State Department.

The U.N. Security Council votes to toughen sanctions on Iran, which is being punished for refusing to halt its uranium-enrichment programs. The measures approved Saturday include a ban on exports of firearms.

Leqaa Kordia left the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado Monday afternoon after just over a year in immigration custody. She was the last Columbia University protester in detention.

There has been a huge debate about immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally, but the administration is looking to cut the number of legal immigrants allowed into the country by half.

Major sponsors want Sepp Blatter, who is being investigated for corruption, to step down immediately. He has said he'll leave the job in 2016.

Today is the deadline card issuers have given for merchants to be ready to accept the new, more secure, computer-chipped cards. But there's still a long way to go.

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks to Joseph DeTrani, former State Department special envoy for negotiations with North Korea, about the detention of a third American in North Korea.

The official reopening of the U.S. Embassy in Havana won't happen until Aug. 14. But Cubans were on hand as the U.S. and Cuba resumed full diplomatic relations after a break of more than 50 years.